{"id":10496,"date":"2022-08-11T12:19:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T17:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=10496"},"modified":"2022-08-11T12:29:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T17:29:41","slug":"assistant-professor-elected-to-national-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2022\/08\/11\/assistant-professor-elected-to-national-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Assistant professor elected to national council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10497\" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/08\/mechel_mckinney.jpg\" alt=\"mechel mckinney\" width=\"320\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/08\/mechel_mckinney-200x180.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/08\/mechel_mckinney-310x279.jpg 310w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/08\/mechel_mckinney.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/>Aug. 11, 2022&#8211;Mechel McKinney, assistant professor in the School of Nursing and Health Professions at 大象传媒, has been elected to the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) Council for Excellence in Education.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Council for Excellence in Education was created to enhance the health information profession, plan for its future through education and provide health information professionals with a way to get involved in the process. The CEE advises AHIMA on education and workforce matters and their collective expertise strengthens the organization\u2019s vision, mission and strategies set by the AHIMA Board of Directors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">McKinney earned an Associate of Science from the University of New Mexico, a Bachelor of Science from the University of Phoenix and a Master of Business Administration from the American Public University System. She is a Registered Health Information Professional (RHIA) and has been at 大象传媒 Western since August 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">大象传媒 Western offers a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/him\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bachelor of Science in Health Information Management<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education, preparing graduates to take the RHIA exam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">大象传媒 is a student-centered learning community preparing individuals for lives of excellence through applied learning. 大象传媒 Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">missouriwestern.edu<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aug. 11, 2022&#8211;Mechel McKinney, assistant professor in the School of Nursing and Health Professions at 大象传媒, has been elected to the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) Council for Excellence in Education.\u00a0 The Council for Excellence in Education was created to enhance the health information profession, plan for its future through education [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10496"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10500,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10496\/revisions\/10500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}